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| Court allows bail to one Filipino, revokes same from another for skipping his haring |
A Filipina domestic helper who is facing a charge of theft in Eastern Court
A. Berbana, 33, first appeared in court on Dec 24, two days
after she was arrested by police for allegedly taking the money belonging to
her employer Wong Man-nga.
On Jan 8, she returned to court and offered to post $6,000
bail and the prosecutor did not object, so Magistrate Peter Law granted the
application.
The helper gave an address in Hunghom where she will stay
while on bail. She was ordered by Law to
stay in that address and to report to the Hung Hom Police Station between 6pm
and 9pm on Thursdays.
She was also told to show up at the next hearing of her case
on Jan 21.
Meanwhile, Law ordered a Filipino male defendant in an
assault case arrested and his bail confiscated after he failed to show up for
the hearing of his case at the same court on the same day.
The defendant, Reiner Rios, is facing a charge of “inflicting
grievous bodily harm” for allegedly attacking a South Asian male sometime last
year in Li Yuen St West
Earlier reports said Rios and another unidentified Filipino
male were drinking in a pub in the alley when they got into a fight with the
South Asian.
The two Filipinos allegedly beat up the victim with a hockey
stick and a golf club. When officers arrived to break up the fight, the two
Filipinos ran away. The police gave chase and caught up with Rios. - Vir B. Lumicao
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